Synthesis and Complexation of Nitrogen-rich Materials

• Main Author: Sebastiao, Elena
• Other Authors: Murugesu, Muralee
• Language: en
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
• Subjects: nitrogen-rich; bta; ttp; tetrazole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33162; http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-1002

Nitrogen-rich materials are of increasing interests for the development of a wide variety of applications. These compounds are prime candidates for ligands used in the complexation of metals since they possess several lone pairs. Resulting complexes have also exhibited a wide variety of interesting properties, ranging from magnetism to gas absorption to energetic properties. This thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of new metallic complexes with the known energetic ligands: hydrazine and H3bta, as well as that of a new nitrogen-rich compound: H4ttp. Chapter 2 outlines a series of chains bridged by hydrazine and their potential as initiatory compounds. Mononuclear lanthanide H3bta complexes are presented in Chapter 3. The development of the new nitrogen-rich, tetrazole-based H4ttp ligand is described in Chapter 4. This new ligand was used to synthesise various lanthanide complexes through hydrothermal reactions.